Former first lady Lady Bird Johnson in hospital

HOUSTON, June 23 (Reuters) Former first lady Lady Bird Johnson, who is 94, is in a hospital in Austin, Texas, for medical tests for an undisclosed condition, a spokeswoman said.

Johnson has ''just been feeling bad,'' but was ''stable, lucid and awake'' at Seton Medical Center, spokeswoman Elizabeth Christian said in a telephone interview yesterday.

''She's not on a ventilator or oxygen,'' Christian said.

''They think she may be able to go home on Sunday.'' Johnson, widow of late President Lyndon Johnson, had a stroke in 2002 that left her with speech difficulties, but she still occasionally appears at public events in Austin, the Texas capital.

Lyndon Johnson, who became president when John Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas in November 1963 and held the office until 1969, died of a heart attack in 1973 at his ranch west of Austin in the Texas Hill Country.

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